{"id":2321,"date":"2026-11-02T06:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5000.news\/zonta-kap-shah-ksilifor-ivaylo-kaparashev-iliya-iliev-2-noemvri-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:47:45","slug":"zonta-kap-shah-ksilifor-ivaylo-kaparashev-iliya-iliev-2-noemvri-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/zonta-kap-shah-ksilifor-ivaylo-kaparashev-iliya-iliev-2-noemvri-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivaylo Kaparashev and Iliya Iliev win the first Zonta Cup chess tournament at Ksilifor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ivaylo Kaparashev of Etar Chess Club and Iliya Iliev of Slavia Chess Club<\/strong> are the first winners of the Zonta Cup trophy. The two players earned the most points in the two-day children's chess competition organized by Zonta Club Veliko Tarnovo at the Ksilifor recreation area, local newspaper Borba reported on November 1.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament brought together <strong>nearly 70 children from Bulgaria and Romania<\/strong>. The event included young players with different levels of experience and provided an opportunity for clubs from both countries to compete.<\/p>\n<h2>Nurgyul Salimova attended the event<\/h2>\n<p>The chess festival was opened by grandmaster Nurgyul Salimova, who attended as a special guest and spoke with the participants. Unlike earlier coverage of the tournament's opening, <strong>this report focuses on the announced winners and the competition's outcome<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Randy Fath \/ Unsplash \u2014 illustrative image of chess pieces, not taken at the Zonta Cup.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borbabg.com\/2026\/11\/01\/1yasni-prizorite-v-prvoto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Borba, November 1, 2026 \u2014 winners of the first Zonta Cup<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivaylo Kaparashev of Etar and Iliya Iliev of Slavia have won the first Zonta Cup. Nearly 70 children competed in the two-day tournament at Ksilifor.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veliko-tarnovo","category-oblastta","category-sport","tag-aktualno"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/5000.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/\u0428\u0430\u0445\u043c\u0430\u0442\u043d\u0438-\u0444\u0438\u0433\u0443\u0440\u0438-\u2014-Randy-Fath-Unsplash-\u0438\u043b\u044e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}